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by A. Scott Berg

Messer, Glenn, 71

  Messerschmitt, Willy E., 377, 465–66

  Milch, Erhard, 356, 377, 378, 381

  Miles Mohawk airplane, 362

  Mil-Hi Airways and Flying Circus, 83–84

  Military aviation, 73; in Europe, 374–75; in France, 374; in Germany, 368, 378–79; Lindbergh and, 360, 373–75; in Russia, 374; in U.S., 384–85, 388–89

  Military life, Lindbergh and, 56, 57–58, 78

  Military service, 8, 387–88; in wartime, 449–55

  Millar, Margaret Bartlett “Monte,” 340–41

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 483

  Miller, Danforth, 453

  Miller, Susan, 512, 607n

  Milles, Carl, 455

  Minnesota in early twentieth century, 32

  Missouri Historical Society, 176, 284, 441, 598n

  Missouri National Guard, 85

  Mitchell, Charles H., 273

  Monkey-eating eagle, 540

  Monnet, Jean, 181, 288, 376

  Monocoupe Corporation, 296

  Montgolfier, Jacques and Michel, 60

  “Moo Pond,” 51

  Moore, A. Harry, 246, 309

  Moore, Richard, 411, 430

  Moral Re-Armament movement, 521

  Morgan, Aubrey Niels, 282, 283, 332, 340, 346, 366, 380; and Lindbergh, 407

  Morgan, Constance Morrow, 366, 407, 433. See also Morrow, Constance

  Morgan, Elisabeth Morrow, 283, 287–88, 296, death of, 305–6. See also Morrow, Elisabeth Reeve

  Morgan, J. Pierpont, 181

  Morris, William, 110

  Morrow, Alice, 192

  Morrow, Anne Spencer, 7, 173–74, 177, 180, 183–85, 201–2; and Lindbergh, 186–88, 193–200. See also Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

  Morrow, Constance, 173–74, 180, 182–84, 185, 199, 220, 282; marriage of, 366. See also Morgan, Constance Morrow

  Morrow, Dwight Whitney, 152–53, 164, 165, 178–82, 215, 217; as ambassador to Mexico, 172–73, 185; death of, 231–32; and Lindbergh’s marriage to Anne, 197, 201–2

  Morrow, Dwight Whitney, Jr., 173, 180, 182, 185–86, 199, 201, 215, 216, 282, 463; marriage of, 366; mental illness of, 494

  Morrow, Elisabeth Reeve, 173–74, 180, 182, 184, 185, 186, 195, 199, 201, 215, 216, 233, 249, 282, 283; heart problems of, 220, 278. See also Morgan, Elisabeth Morrow

  Morrow, Elizabeth Cutter “Betty,” 173, 180–82, 185, 215, 217, 227, 234, 272, 306, 366, 403; death of, 499; and death of husband, 231–32; and Hauptmann trial, 329–30, 332, 333; and Lindbergh, 389, 407, 479, 480, 496; and Lindberghs’ marriage, 196–97, 199, 200, 201–2, 330; and son’s mental illness, 494

  Morrow, James, 178

  Morrow, Jay Johnson, 583n

  Morrow, Margot Loines, 366, 494, 495

  Motorcycle owned by Lindbergh, 53, 57, 58, 67

  Motor for transatlantic flight, 102

  Motte, Anne de la, 223

  Movies: The Spirit of St. Louis, 500–503; proposals to Lindbergh, 162

  Mulligan, Ed, 107, 115

  Munroe, Vernon, 201

  Murder on the Orient Express, Christie, 250, 588n

  Mussolini, Benito, 363; Carrel and, 349

  Mystical phenomena, Lindbergh’s interest in, 364

  Naked swimming, 544

  National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 388

  National Aeronautic Association, 91, 111, 155; Contest Committee, 102

  National Geographic, 305; and Goddard, 389

  Nature Conservancy, 536

  Naval Technical Mission, 463–70

  Navigation: Anne Lindbergh and, 208; for transatlantic flight, 101–2, 119–20, 125–26

  Nazism: Anne Lindbergh and, 401–2; Lindbergh’s views on, 376

  Nebraska Aircraft Corporation, 62–63

  Nelson, John, 35

  Nelson, Knute, 71

  Nelson, Thomas P. “Nellie,” 86, 93

  Neutrality, 383, 394, 397–99

  Neutrality Act of 1935, 375, 399–400, 430–31

  New (Postmaster General), 153, 154–55

  Newsreel movies, 115–16, 136, 139–40, 158, 329, 412

  Newsweek interview, 486–87

  Newton, James, 369, 386, 397, 398, 400, 403, 404, 412, 416, 441, 521, 551, 553

  New York American, 257, 265

  New York City, 151, 156; Lindbergh home in, 291

  New York Daily News, 202, 260, 338

  New Yorker, 218, 379

  New York Evening Journal, 308

  New York Herald Tribune, 308

  New York Journal and Hauptmann trial, 304

  New York Mirror, 308

  New York Post, 435

  New York Sun, 122–23

  New York Times, 96, 192, 282, 284, 364, 434, 538; and Hauptmann, 315, 318, 333–34, 351–52; and kidnapping, 245, 250

  —and Lindbergh, 175, 232, 285, 294, 295, 340–41; death of, 562; after flight, 141–42, 146, 148, 152, 153, 158; German medal, 379; misquotation of, 473; poems about, 151

  —and transatlantic flight, 117, 121, 122, 126, 131, 135–38; anniversary of, 367

  New York Times Book Review, 485

  New York Tribune, 282

  New York World-Telegram, 435

  “Next Day Hill” (Morrow home, Englewood), 198, 215–18, 220, 296, 304, 318–19, 369, 387, 389; after baby’s death, 279, 280–82, 283; Christmas at, 233–34; Lindbergh wedding at, 201–2; threats against Lindbergh at, 339

  Nichols, Ruth, 114

  Nicolson, Harold, 283, 304–5, 332, 346–48, 352–53, 371–72; and Hauptmann trial, 333

  Niebuhr, Reinhold, 428

  Night Flight, Saint-Exupéry, 391

  Nixon, Richard M., 516, 536, 538

  Noguchi, Isamu, 250

  Nonpartisan League, 49

  Nonstop flight record, 106

  Norris, George, 293

  Norris, Kathleen, 277, 311, 316, 325, 327, 412, 420, 422

  Norstad, Lauris, 476

  North Haven, Maine, 282–83

  Northrop, Marvin, 73

  North to the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 335–36, 337

  Nungesser, Charles, 4, 100, 105, 107; mother of, 139

  Nye, Gerald P., 410

  Occult, interest in, 354–55

  Of Flight and Life, Lindbergh, 485

  Olson, Erwin A., 527

  Olympic Games, Berlin, 360

  Onassis, Jacqueline, 546

  Organ transplantation, 528

  Orteig, Raymond, 145–46

  Orteig Prize, 91, 93, 96, 97, 102–4, 152; attempts, 104–5, 107; Morrow and, 165; presentation of, 159

  Osborne, Albert S., 301, 318

  Ottawa, Canada, Lindbergh in, 166

  Owen, John, 524

  Owens, Jesse, 602n

  Owens, Russell, 112

  Oxford Group, 369

  Oxygen equipment, modifications of, 447

  Pacific expedition, 226–32

  Page, Ray, 63, 65, 66

  Page’s Aerial Pageant, 63, 66

  Palmer, Paul, 410

  Panama Canal, visit to, 44

  Pan American Airways, 191, 200, 209, 226, 284–90, 353–54; inspection tours of, 496–97, 511; Lindbergh as director of, 519–20, 551

  Panamin (Private Association for National Minorities), 540–45

  Pantages, Alexander, 162

  Pantheon Books, 497–98, 499, 510

  Parachute jumping, 66–67

  Parents Magazine, 217

  Paris, France, 288, 380, 382–83, 464; Lindbergh’s reception in, 3–5, 128–31, 135–46

  Paris Matin, 4

  Parker, Ellis, 338

  Patrick, Mason M., 97

  Patterson, A. G., 294

  Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 431

  Pearson, Drew, 435

  Pechin, Jeannie and Edward, 554

  Pederson, Thomas, 17

  Peek, George N., 412

  Pelley, William Dudley, 406, 445

  Pendray, G. Edward, 214

  Pennsylvania Railroad, 189

  Pepper, Claude, 415


  Perfusion pump, 223–24, 336–37, 360, 528

  Perrone, Joseph, 258, 300, 317, 335

  Perry, Vernon, 528

  Personal relationships, 176–77

  Pétain, Henri, 403

  P-47 airplanes (Thunderbolts), 447–48

  Philippine Islands, 539–45

  Pickford, Mary, 205

  “Planorbe” (Swiss chalet), 534

  Plummer, Richard, 57 63, 65

  PM, 417; attacks on Lindbergh, 420

  Poems: by Anne Lindbergh, 483, 499–500; at baby’s death, 277; about Lindbergh, 151

  Poincaré, Raymond, 141

  Poland, German invasion of, 394

  Politicians and kidnapping case, 253, 340

  Politics: C. A. Lindbergh and, 32–36; of Carrel, 349; in Sweden, 11

  —of Lindbergh, 7–8, 371–72, 390–400, 402, 470–71, 477, 486; America First, 412–13; atomic bomb, 473–74; attacks on, 408–9; congressional testimony, 413–15

  Poole, Burnell, “The Epic of the Air,” 490

  Pope, Frederick, 309, 323

  Popularity of Lindbergh, 120–22, 138–77, 218–19, 234–35, 276–77; loss of, 383, 407. See also Unpopularity of Lindbergh

  Popular Science Monthly, 210

  Post, Wiley, 338

  Postage stamp, first airmail, 155

  Practical jokes, 43, 77–78, 86

  President Roosevelt (ship), 118

  Press: and Hauptmann trial, 306–34 passim, 351, 367–8; Jews and, 429; and Jon Lindbergh, 339–40; and kidnapping case, 245, 260, 262, 268, 272, 273, 283, 338; and Morrow family, 200; Rogers obituary in, 338

  —and Lindbergh, 7, 168, 175–76, 193, 207–8, 285, 286, 290, 369, 386–88, 434, 486–87, 538; Anne’s pregnancy, 216; atomic bomb views, 473–74; attacks on, 409, 428; births, 217–18, 281–82, 366; courtship of Anne, 195, 198; death of, 558, 560, 562; German medal, 379–80; government work, 390; move to England, 345–46; negative, 218–19, 236; Pacific expedition, 227, 229; politics, 358, 384–85; transatlantic flight, 100, 106–7, 108, 112, 113, 117, 129, 131, 135–36, 137, 141–43, 149; wartime service, 440–41, 457; wedding, 200–204. See also Media; Radio

  Primitive societies, 521–23, 540–45

  Princeton students and kidnapping, 246

  Prizes offered for record flights, 143. See also Ortieg Prize

  Product endorsement requests, 161

  Profiles in Courage, Kennedy, 517

  Pryor, Mary Taylor, 534

  Pryor, Sam, 531–34, 549–50, 551, 555–56, 562

  Psychotherapy, 494–95

  P-38 airplanes, 450–53, 455

  Public response, 445, 518; after Asian trip, 232; to baby’s death, 276–77; to birth of first son, 217; to engagement announcement, 198; to kidnapping, 248, 268; to Lindbergh’s politics, 402, 410, 429; to radio speeches, 397–98; to transatlantic flight, 109–10, 120–22, 140, 143, 153, 160–61

  Public service, 375

  Pujo, Arsene, 36

  Pulitzer Prize, 490, 491, 605n

  Putnam, George, 165, 167, 278, 283

  Putnam Publishing Company, 166–67

  Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 577n

  Racist views, 394–95

  Radio: Lindbergh speeches on, 395–98, 402, 410; reports of kidnapping on, 242, 245

  Railroads and commercial aviation, 189

  Ransom money, 263–64; Hauptmann and, 335; reappearance of, 279, 297–300

  Ransom notes, 242–43, -1244-0, 249, 252, 255–56, 261–62

  Ray, E. Lansing, 93

  Read, David, 545

  Reader’s Digest, 395, 406, 525; and postwar Europe, 482–83; and The Steep Ascent, 456

  “Reaffirmation,” Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 407–8

  Rechlin air testing station, 368

  Record flights, 106, 117–18, 150, 225–26; cross-country, 216; prizes offered for, 143

  Regina Laudis Priory, 544

  Reich, Al, 258–60, 265, 267

  Reichart, Irving F., 428

  Reilly, Edward J., 304, 309, 313–24 passim, 328, 335, 338; summation, 331

  Religion, Lindbergh and, 544

  Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), 55–58

  Rickenbacker, Edward V., 62, 412

  Riggs, Austen Fox, 199

  Ristine, Carl L., 294–95

  Roanoke Times, 445

  Robbins, Barbara, 504

  Robbins, Richard, 292, 295

  Roberts, Loren, 37

  Robertson, Frank, 82, 106

  Robertson, William, 82, 93, 106, 188, 461

  Robertson Aircraft Corporation, 84, 85–89

  Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 171–72

  Rockefeller Institute, 222, 234; Lindbergh’s work at, 279, 283, 336–37

  Rocket factory, German, 466–69

  Rocket science, 210–14, 348–49, 388, 466, 471–72

  Rodgers, C. P., 62

  Rogers, “Banty,” 66, 67

  Rogers, Will, 121, 143, 215, 236, 293, 296; and kidnapping, 247; death of, 338

  Rogers, William P., 536

  Rome, Italy, visit to, 363

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 218, 315, 389, 390, 407, 429, 454–55; and aviation, 291–92; death of, 463; views of, 288; visit to Willow Run, 446; and war, 413, 426, 430–431

  —and Lindbergh, 7–8, 246, 290, 292–93, 296, 387–88, 394, 399, 423–24; attacks on, 409, 418; wartime services, 436–38

  Roosevelt, Kermit, 42

  Roosevelt, Quentin, 42

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 35, 43

  Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 109

  Roosevelt Administration and Lindbergh’s politics, 397

  Roosevelt Field, flight from, 113–15

  Root, Oren, 242, 245

  Rose, Billy, 424

  Rosecrans, Egbert, 309, 323

  Rosen, John N., 494, 510

  Rosenhain, Max, 256

  Rosenwald, Lessing, 413

  Rosner, Morris “Mickey,” 248–49, 253, 254, 260, 261

  ROTC. See Reserve Officer Training Corps

  Roxas, Sixto, 540

  Rublee, George, 381

  Runyon, Damon, 308

  Russia, tour of, 373–74. See also Soviet Union

  Ryan, Claude, 103

  Ryan Aeronautical Company, 95–96, 98–106, 171

  Saarinen, Lily and Eero, 455

  Sackville-West, Vita, 283, 346–47, 371

  Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 390–93, 403, 404, 407, 491; death of, 457

  Saint-Gildas, 370–71

  St. Johns, Adela Rogers, 308

  St. Louis, Missouri, 81–82, 171, 284; and Lindbergh, 136, 160, 175, 218

  St. Louis Globe Democrat, 73

  St. Louis Post Dispatch, 94

  Salisbury, Harrison, 49

  Sallada, H. B., 471

  San Diego, California, 98

  Saturday Evening Post, 489

  Saturday Review of Literature, 499–500

  Schory, Carl F., 96, 111

  Schwartz, Sol, 428

  Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, 241–42, 245, 249, 260, 265, 266, 268, 270, 272, 274, 279–80, 313, 332, 340, 350, 352, 365; at Hauptmann trial, 310; and solution of kidnapping, 296–97, 302

  Schwarzkopf, Mrs. H. Norman, 311

  Science, Lindbergh and, 8, 336–37, 360, 528

  Scott, Orville E., 83

  Scott, Robert Lee, Jr., 487

  Scott’s Cove, Connecticut, Lindbergh home in, 478–79

  Scribner, Charles, 485, 488, 489–90

  Seal, Joseph, 22

  “Second Sowing,” Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 483

  Senate, U.S., Lindbergh testimony to, 415

  Senatorial campaign, 71–72

  Sendak, Maurice, 250

  Service, Robert W., 52

  Sharkey, Jack, 121

  Sharpe, Violet, 257, 269, 279

  Shaw, George Bernard, 372

  Sheaffer, Daniel, 247

  The Shells, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 492–94, 497

  Sherwood, Robert, 409–10

  Shipstead, Henrik, 410

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  Sidwell Friends School, 41–42

  Sikorsky, Igor, 91, 97, 100, 377, 577n

  Simpson, Mrs. Ernest, 352

  Sioux Uprising, 14–15

  Sirius (Lockheed airplane), 215–16; modifications to, 226, 284–85; Pacific expedition, 227, 228–31

  Sisk, Thomas, 298–99, 321

  Sissinghurst Castle, 347

  Skean (Scottish terrier), 227, 280, 347

  “Sky hook,” 285

  Smith, Alfred E., 157–58

  Smith, Kay, 356–57, 379, 424–25

  Smith, Meryl, 454

  Smith, Truman, 355–57, 359, 360, 361, 362, 368, 376, 379, 396–97, 420

  Smith College, 405; honorary degrees, 335, 366

  Smithsonian Institution, 175, 486

  Snowden, “Shorty George,” 151

  “Social Justice” (tabloid), 402

  Solo flight, first, 70–71

  Songs: at baby’s death, 277; about Lindbergh, 150–51

  Sorel, Cecile, 145

  Sorenson, Charles, 439, 444

  Sourland Mountains, 219

  South America, travels in, 289–90, 539

  Souther Field, Georgia, 69–71

  South Pacific, combat service in, 449–55

  Soviet Union, 373–74; Lindbergh and, 376–77, 382, 394, 471, 477

  Spaatz, Carl, 464, 512, 606n

  Space program, 8, 210, 537–38

  Spaeth, Eva Lindbergh Christie, 552

  Speeches, 357–58, 435, 473; anti-war, 395–98, 402, 408–9, 412–13, 417–31; conservation issues, 532

  Spink, James, “The Little Eaglet,” 277

  Spirit of St. Louis (airplane), 3, 5, 8, 102–6, 142, 155, 486, 578n; Latin America tour of, 172–75; nationwide tour of, 164, 167–71; on postage stamp, 155; retirement of, 175; transatlantic flight of, 113–29, 140, 144–46, 148, 149–50, 160; visit to, 501

  The Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh, 488–90; movie of, 500–503

  Spitale, “Salvy,” 252–53, 261

  Springer, Arthur, 202, 217

  Stalin, Joseph, Lindbergh’s views on, 382

  Steed, Henry Wickham, 358

  The Steep Ascent, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 456, 457

  Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 52

  Stein, Gertrude, 382

  Sterling Memorial Library, Lindbergh papers at, 518

  Stern, Isaac, 516

  Stevens, Ted, 532

  Stevenson, Adlai, 486, 515, 516

  Stewart, James, 121, 126, 502

  Stewart, Potter, 411

  Stimson, Henry L., 435–37

  Stock exchanges and transatlantic flight, 126

  Stockton, Ethel, 334

  Strategic Air Command, 476–77

  Straus, Roger, 358

  Stuart, R. Douglas “Bob,” Jr., 411, 417, 421, 429–32, 434

  Stultz, Wilmer, 206

  Stumpf, George, 113

  Sulzberger, Arthur, 489

 

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